The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-18

ten long years and made nothing except
what he spent for drink. Two years ago he
stopped drinking, married, and has since
saved over 81, 900 and expects to double it
this winter.
At Orlando, Tuesday, Judge Broome
granted an alternate writ Of mandamus TO
Butt & Silver, attorneys for certain citi-
zens, requiring the Mayor to show cause On
Aug. % why an election of city officers
should not be held.
The States Attorney has moved for rule
against the Sheriff Of Putnam county to
show cause for failure to execute certain
warrants against road defaulters in the
! Fifteenth road district. The warrants should
have been returned some time ago.
The election held by the shareholders of
| the Palatka National Bank. Tuesday, for an
| agent, as required by the call published for
| some time by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency at Washington, resulted in Mr.. o.
! w. Bromwell being the choice, he having
received the unanimous vote of the share
holders.
The Kerr City post Office has been turned
over to Robert Willmott Mr.. Willmott is
now p1<.t master until a new appointment
can be IIide by the Department, filling the
vacancy made through the action of the
bOndsmen in removing, or in refusing to
stand for Mr. Satterthwaite, who is now
nonresident.
J. Kaufman, of Jacksonville, has a CON
tract to deliver 80, zoo, 900 white oak slaves
TO German syndicate. Mr.. Kaufman will
ship the first 80, 600 in few days. He has
eighty men employed i'll the work. He
owns considerable timber lands on the gulf
and will no doubt make considerable money
out of the transaction.
On Monday afternoon lightning struck a
pine tree standing close to the railroad track
eli 81 ,1pr x.r1,t Oh,
Robert W. Rich, a colored section hand,
working for the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West railroad, Enterprise and Titus
vile division, had gone for shelter from the
storm, killing him instantly.
The bridge over ., 600 feet long, now being
built across the Halifax river at Ormond. to
connect the mainland with the peninsula,
will have railroad track for the running
of trains over TO the beach. A horse car
will use the track also to convey passengers
and freight, and there will be drive way
for teams and foot passengers. There will
be a draw to permit vessels. etc, to go
through.
On Sunday night some negroes who were
employed clearing land in one of the suburbs
of st. Augustine, were encamped ON the
property so as to facilitate the work, when
a difficulty occurred which resulted in a
murder Palmer Graham had borrowed
fused to repay it. The boy picked up a
small stick and told Graham that if he did
not pay the money he would strike him with
the stick This enraged Graham to such an
extent that he grabbed an ak and knocked
the boy on the head, killing him almost in
stantly. Graham Immediately left for parts
unknown.
A citizen of Gainesville, who was 40 years
old Sunday, celebrated his birthday by
going to prayer meeting at o o'clock a m,
to church at 10 30 q. M, met with the +. q
A. NJ. at 8 p. M, attended burial service
at O'Clock p. m, and attended church
services at s p. m, and had sat up all night
the night before This man was reared in
Florida, and does not drink or use tobacco
in any form. He has not had but four days
sickness in five years to prevent him from
attending to his usual routine of business.
He has never owned pistol, and has never
had need for one. He has never had any
business in the civil courts, and has never
contributed anything towards keeping up
the city funds.
Jasper Altman and his son, William while
hunting alligators on the st. Johns, near
Osteen, Friday night, had quite tussle with
one that measured 9 feet and z inches in
length One of the hunters sent rifle ball
into the saurian's head. The party, suppos
ing their victim dead pushed the boat along
side and started to take it on board, which
they only partly succeeded in doing, when
Mr.. Gator, who was simply stunned, came
to, and, not liking such treatment, resent
ingly swung his large tail around caught
the elder Altman blow across the shoulders,
knocking him overheard, and then
escaped while William was help
ing his father back into the
boat. Finding that he was not hurt any
more than n wetting, Mr.. Altman concluded
tn 40 al IN fha ot,r
face again, which he did in short time.
and another ball followed by third settled
him.
A meeting of the directors of the South
Florida Exposition was held at Orlando
Wednesday 1t was decided by the direc-
tors to hold the next exposition at Sanford
during the season of 1887 and 1888. An
auxiliary or advisory committee of three
was appointed, consisting of +. III. Rand,
d. II. Elliott and DR.. King Wylly. This
committee will select grounds and arrange
all the details for holding the exposition
The committee will report to the d.
rectors at a meeting in October when
officers will be elected, and final and COM
plete arrangements will be made. Among
the premiums to be offered to contributors
are the following: First premium, by Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western railroad,
81 1000; second premium, by the South
Florida Exposition, $500; third premium,
by the South Florida Exposition, $3.50.
Best trades display: First premium, by the
South Florida railroad, $3.50.
One of Mr.. Flagler's vast enterprises at
st. Augustine is the work of filling in the
marshes of the San Sebastian work which
is Of great Importance to the future welfare
of the city. St Augustine has always been
cramped for building space on account of
it being surrounded by a large area of salt
marshes. These marshes have been pur-
chased by Mr.. Flagler, who is now filing
them in for building houses. In order to
get the dirt for filling he has bought
large tract of land about two
miles north of the city, adjacent to the
Jacksonville and St Augustine railroad
A track has been built to the pit where the
earth is being excavated. A gang of about
125 hands is employed in excavating and
filling in, and n train of eleven cars has
been constantly employed since February
in transporting the material. The daily ex-
penses of this work alone are at least $3.50,
and it will take probably eighteen months
longer TO complete it. a large concrete union
depot is TO be built on this made ground,
and it is probable that large number of
neat and handsome dwellings will be erected
on this tract for leasing.
Palatka Neics. On Saturday the post
master of this city was notified that T. l..
Mccoy, the colored railway postal clerk on
the Florida Southern. had been transferred
to another field of labor. Yesterday the